Fuck it. – The Grinch (by the way, the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas book/film and almost all other original versions Dr. Seuss books/films except for How the Grinch Stole Christmas’s sewuel known as Hoe the Grinch Stole Halloween, okay, maybe it’s good, but ehat is hated about it is that The Grinch is again evil when he went from going back to a good guy in How the Grinch of Stole Christmas, which will always be a *LOT* more Awesometacular than Illumination’s The Grinch and Jim Carrey’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas because they were a LOT less childish).

You’ve said, in the past, that being true to the original isn’t a good way to determine somethings quality. I’m not saying this movie isn’t forgettable, but I don’t think you can have some of the issues here, without changing your mind about previous ideals first.

My favorite animated Christmas movie house to be a 3 way tie between the polar express, Mickey’s once upon a Christmas, and a Charlie Brown Christmas. I know Polar Express is creepy with the uncanny valley but shit it just gets me into the warmth of Christmas.

Seriously. I’m a fan of Benedict, but he’s completely miscast. The Grinch is supposed to be a gravelly monster man with a voice to match, not… just some guy who’s mildly upset. For all that the live action film is (rightly) criticized, Jim Carrey at least made a solid impression. And the original special, well… we never even NEEDED a remake after that!

The Jim Carrey Grinch movie is totally my guilty pleasure Christmas movie, mostly because I was 9 when that movie came out, the exact right age demographic. This movie, even though I love Benedict Cumberbatch to an almost dangerous level, I saw it as an assault on my childhood on top of an assault on the original, the perfect half hour cartoon special.

its just one of t hose movies that no one asked for and no one wanted yet someone out there was like ” lets waste time making a movie that someone already made” and thats how we get shitty un original movies

Well done, Illumination. You screwed Dr. Seuss’s legacy again.
The CEO guy has already half spoiled Horton when he was in Blue Sky Studio, and built his own company to ruin Lorax and Grinch…
Well, let’s just hope the Cat in the Hat will not be as terrible as the Mike Myers one.